The Plant Sciences Facility (PlantS)

Short Description

The Plant Sciences Facility (PlantS) operates 22 high quality state-of-the-art and highly specialized plant growth chambers and provides professional support to research groups at the VBC. Within spare capacities all services are also available for external customers.

Several chambers are capable of providing exceptional environmental conditions i.e. low temperature (frost), high temperature, different light intensities, different light spectra and different gas conditions (CO2) allowing precise environmental simulation across different climate zones and the simulation of various environmental stress conditions. Additionally, one of our chambers is equipped with a robotic plant phenotyping system.

Contact Person

Jakub Jez

Research Services

Basic plant growth:

All growth chambers provide standard plant growth conditions with minor deviations from the set points, independent of external environmental influencing parameters. Temperature, humidity, light and water supply are computer controlled, fully automated and corresponding parameters are continuously graphed and documented.

The Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities (VBCF) is a research institute providing access to state of the art infrastructure and advanced research services on a fee-for-service basis. Additionally, VBCF core facilities are open to all forms of scientific cooperation. Information on general conditions of cooperation and usage fees is provided upon request.